I’ve long believed that the people who design computer software are the same people who design the taps in restrooms. You know the ones: you simply want to wash your hands but instead of turning on a tap, you’re forced to perform a series of cryptic hand gestures in front of a brushed-steel monolith, only …
Category: Mac
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Feb 01 2026
The iPhone’s Spooky Action
Well, its not quiet limited to the iPhone, but it made for a good title anyway. Are you are still emailing yourself links, messaging yourself photos, or—heaven forbid—manually re-typing a tracking number from your phone onto your laptop? You are? Well you are working way harder than you need to and missing out on one …
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Jan 31 2026
You have more than one clipboard*
*If you’ve updated to Tahoe. Remember the 80s? Big hair, shoulder pads, and a single, solitary clipboard on the MacPlus. If you wanted to move three things, you did it three times. Copy. Paste. Copy. Paste. Copy. Paste. It was a digital dark age, a barbaric wasteland of inefficiency and that was the state of …
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Aug 09 2025
Time Capsule is dead
Once upon a time, Apple sold a magical white box called the Time Capsule. It backed up your Mac wirelessly, looked like a minimalist loaf of bread, and it was one of the most elegant backup solutions in the tech industry. In fact, even in its dying days, it still is. But now, in 2025, …
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Aug 09 2025
The Sorting Hat no one asked for
Apple Mail has always been the quiet workhorse of macOS and iOS. It didn’t try to be flashy. It didn’t throw pop-ups in your face. – it just went about sorting your email without fanfare. It just delivered your email in a nice, boring list—like a responsible adult. But then came macOS Sequoia and iOS …
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